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Jackson6612 Posted 17 years ago
To feel curiosity or doubt
Grammar
To feel curiosity or doubt
2wonder
intransitive verb
1 a: to be in a state of wonder b: to feel surprise
2: to feel curiosity or doubt <wondering about the future>
transitive verb: to be curious or in doubt about <wonders why birds sing>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
Isn't wonder used as a transitive verb in the phrase wondering about the future, where about the future is used as an object?
For example: What are you doing? I'm just wondering about the future.
intransitive verb
1 a: to be in a state of wonder b: to feel surprise
2: to feel curiosity or doubt <wondering about the future>
transitive verb: to be curious or in doubt about <wonders why birds sing>
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
Isn't wonder used as a transitive verb in the phrase wondering about the future, where about the future is used as an object?
For example: What are you doing? I'm just wondering about the future.
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". Some examples of direct objects: I am reading a book. She asked me [ a question | where I was living | what I was doing | why I was there | to tell the truth].
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- Some examples of direct objects: I am reading a book.
- She asked me [ a question | where I was living | what I was doing | why I was there | to tell the truth].
- He told me [a pack of lies | that he was going abroad for some time].
- He denied [the fact | lying].
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Hi,
As far as I know transitive verbs are the ones that take a direct object, without any preposition, and answer the question "What?".
Some examples of direct objects:
As far as I know transitive verbs are the ones that take a direct object, without any preposition, and answer the question "What?".
Some examples of direct objects:
- I am reading a book.
- She asked me [a question | where I was living | what I was doing | why I was there | to tell the truth].
- He told me [a pack of lies | tha
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I'm just wondering about the future.
'about the future' is not the object of the verb; it is an adverbial element, an adjunct, that desribes, modifies the verb 'wondering'.
'about the future' is not the object of the verb; it is an adverbial element, an adjunct, that desribes, modifies the verb 'wondering'.
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